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Industry Canada

Radiocommunication Act

Notice No. SMSE-013-04 - Amendment 4 of RSS-210

Notice is hereby given that Industry Canada is amending Radio Standards Specification 210 (RSS-210),
which sets out minimum requirements for the certification of low-power transmitters and receivers.

This RSS
was amended in order to include new technical requirements that will allow the certification of General Radio Mobile Service (GMRS) devices operating at a maximum effective radiated power of
2 watts. GMRS equipment that provides a repeater capability may not be certified. The amended
version is:

The use of GMRS devices in Canada as early as September 2004 has been announced in Gazette Notice DGTP-001-04.
These licence-exempt devices will use a set of frequencies in the frequency range 462/467 MHz.

The application for certification of GMRS radios
must be in accordance with spectrum policy SP
462/467 MHz as it relates
to the GMRS Alliance (GMRSA) frequency displacement
program.

Electro-Federation Canada which operates the GMRSA can be reached at the following address:

Interested parties should submit their comments within 90 days of the date of publication of
this notice. Shortly after the close of the comment period, all comments received will be posted on
Industry Canada's Spectrum Management and Telecommunications
Web site at: http://www.ic.gc.ca/spectrum.

Submitting Comments

Respondents are requested to provide their comments in electronic format
(WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF
or ASCII TXT) to the following
email address: res.nmr@ic.gc.ca, along with a note specifying the software, version number and operating
system used.

All submissions should cite the Canada Gazette, Part I, publication date, the title,
and the notice reference number (SMSE-013-04).

Obtaining Copies

Copies are available electronically on the Spectrum Management
and Telecommunications Web site at: http://www.ic.gc.ca/spectrum. Note that the above-mentioned
documents and the Radio Equipment Technical Standards Lists are also available on the same Web
site.

Official printed copies can be obtained from the Canada
Gazette Web site at: www.gazette.gc.ca/index-eng.html or by calling the sales counter
of Canadian Government Publishing at 819-941-5995 or 1-800-635-7943.